Captain Marvel #11!!

Captain Marvel #11 has an excellent cover I like the retro style poster on the building with Captain Marvel running past.  I fear though that the rest of the issue is seriously lacking in quality when compared to the last few issues.  If I had wanted to read a whiny woe is me the world is out to get me I would read from my collection of Spider-Man or X-men comics from the 1980s.  It is rather obvious who this new mystery villain is and it is just a matter of waiting on the lazy writer to see if I am right or not.  I am seriously disappointed in this issue.

Deadpool #6

Deadpool #6 was entertaining but a bit wordy and lacking in killing of more than a couple of zombie presidents.  I fear the writers had mostly run out of ideas at this point and lucky for them this was the final issue of this story arc.  I’m hoping the next story arc is as well written.  The bit at the end was amusing when we learn where the Necromancer placed Agent Preston’s soul after she died.

The Fearless Defenders #2!!!

Fearless Defenders #2 was again an entertaining comic book continuing where the previous issue had left off.  Though the story starts out with the kidnaping of X-men / New Mutant Moonstar and while she put up a valiant defense she was captured by normal humans.  It will be hard to believe that she would then be of much use against evil Asgardian or the undead.  Though I suspect we will find her doing just that in future issues.  We then return to following Valkyrie, Misty Knight and Annabelle Riggs who have traveled to Oklahoma to visit Asgard to learn about the Death Maidens.  It turns out Valkyrie has been procrastinating in her task to find additional Valkyries to lead in defense of the universe.  There is much recrimination and then a fight with Hela Queen of the Underworld of death.  This leads to the final splash page where Hela introduces a new character Warrior Woman or as she prefers to be called Hippolyta.  At this point I will speculate that since the Valkyrie was tasks with finding new Warrior women and having found all supers so far lacking.  I also notice that so far we have only met female heroes and gods that this incarnation of the Defenders the Fearless Defenders will become Valkyries or at least fight under Brunhilde’s leadership.  This could make for some very interesting storytelling.  I wonder how the writers will mess it up.

X-Treme X-Men #12

X-Treme X-Men #12 has yet another jump to a new location.  At the end of the last issue the good guys were confronting the three evil Xaviers.  Though now they are in an Egyptian world with the Xaviers in control with the good guys sneaking around looking for a victory.  There is a speech and a plan, the team attacks but opens a portal and while the side effect is the death of two of the evil Xaviers it appears they destroyed that world.  We also get a glimpse of the evil destruction on the other side and it looks like Sentinels again.  I was thinking Sentinels make sense in that in the past Sentinels have decided killing everyone is the only way to get rid of mutants some might have decided killing the universe was an even better plan.

All New X-Men #9!

All New X-Men #9 was interesting with all the talking and talking about what was going on as if the writer was stalling.  It was rather obvious that the Times Square fight was in the Danger Room because we had already seen the X-men from the past fight well in a group.  It is not like they had fought bad guys in this series but they had fought people in their own past.  But there is some sloppy writing going on here and while I realize there will be some weirdness due to the time travel.  The lady whom Mystique breaks out of jail is suddenly with the current day X-men under crazy Cyclops as the cliff hanger?  I realize this could be a projection of the ladies power but still it is weird.  I am not even going to point out how the whole reason the X-men from the past came to the current day has been solved and not solved, the Beast was cured.  Yet the writers are still avoiding the whole save Scott Summers from himself plot – not counting the cliff hanger.  The entire comic feels like filler for the sake of filler and stretching out a clever idea way too far.

Catwoman #18 Requiem

Catwoman #18 Requiem deals with Batman mourning for Robin yet that part of the story feels crammed into the main story line.  So Batman and Catwoman have a chase and then they fight.  Catwoman then goes to try and find her fence that had been taken in by the police.  But the friend it turns out did not need her help and was out of the police station before Catwoman could help.  Then Catwoman robs the guy whom paid her to steal some artwork that she then returns to the Gotham Museum.  This comic was crammed with all kinds of stuff but felt a bit flat because so much information presented that nothing really gets done.  Oh well DC got to slap Requiem on another comic to make money off the death of Robin.

Justice League of America #2

Justice League of America #2 was much better than issue #1.  In this issue we actually get some story movement and the team members actually get to meet each other.  I also enjoyed the introduction of the “Society” the evil or bad guys.  The Scarecrow is recruited so that is one down if we are collecting villains from the old Saturday Morning Cartoon.  Not sure without looking it up whom the villain that looks like the Joker really is, but it could be the Joker.  The fake Justice League is kind of stupid but that might just be the fractured storytelling being used so far.  It did give the writers and artists a chance to plop more images of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman into the book.  I was happy to see that we the reader might get to see some super hero action, but then the story ended in a cliffhanger.  Then there is what turns out to be a Martian Manhunter story which I guess is to show how and why the JLA was finally approved.  While the story itself was nice and solid I am disappointed in how a story that should have been part of the main book was just slipped in and used to pad out the pages.  I am really getting tired of DC Comics just cutting up a main storyline and dropping in unrelated stories to not just charge for a larger comic book but to stretch out the story into more and more issues.  As a reader I would much prefer a complete story told as written in a few comics and then a whole new story.  I realize that would require the company to spend more money on a writer for new stories.   But when the writer is most often the real star and seller of a comic it seems like that would be a good idea.